Just referred to the great and holy manual to get the difference. To add some humor to the situation, depending on how messy people edit their tunes, there is a wide range of this function being basically the same as shift+N to total uber wreckage destruction machine. ;-)
50 Oct 26, 2017 11:27 am
Re: defMON (438 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
@frantic: I'm sorry I've found that only to ruin your day. ;-))
51 Oct 25, 2017 9:58 pm
Re: defMON (438 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
It was mentioned in the initial report that random pattern skipping is directly related to the missing red-dot marker.
Thanks so much for this version!
@frantic: One question - Was copy+paste keyboard shortcut change from shift+N (or U) to just shift+U intended or purely accidental?
I also did quite extensive testing of the 20171024 build especially having in mind those tunes that had the end-pattern signature (red dots) put in an unusual place (e.g. 3/4 or 5/8 tunes), but everything works perfectly so far. No other problems related to load/save operation affecting the tunes found as well.
52 Aug 18, 2017 11:04 pm
Re: defMON (438 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Okay... so regarding the previous bugreport, I understand the fix is not happening, neither is any possible workaround meant to be shared, or what is the plan right now? I mean, some of you lived with the bug for 8 years now, so it would be extraordinarily awesome to know how to prevent this poo from happening. :-)
53 Jun 5, 2017 10:53 am
Re: FOR SALE: MSSIAH and Cynthcart Cartridges for C64 (9 replies, posted in Trading Post)
I'd buy MSSIAH from you and I'm from Poland as well. PM sent.
54 Jun 5, 2017 10:44 am
Re: defMON (438 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Speaking of future improvements, if there are any planned, I'd again sell my soul to have the possibility to change x1/x2/x4/x8 raster-speed on pattern via command. :-)
55 Jun 5, 2017 8:15 am
Re: defMON (438 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
I sometimes use 20090304 instead of 20141107 for downwards-compatibility (e.g. TR+AF behaves differently in 20130803 and newer builds etc.) and because we had dualSID support cut out in the public 20130803 version at that time.
Notice 1 - the lack of end-pattern marker (red dots) bug always coexists with no copy+paste pattern bug (shift+N = the screen flashes red but nothing happens). I guess they are connected somehow (defMON not being able to recognize start+end of the pattern to copy because of missing end-pattern marker?). It also causes the affected pattern to skip (jump to next pattern) prematurely/at random.
Notice 2 - the bug will never happen if you start a new tune. It always happens after you load a tune from a disk. It looks like the end-pattern marker is not written to unused patterns. And after loading a tune from the disk it's simply not there because defMON doesn't automatically fill end-pattern markers into unused patterns.
To reliably reproduce it: 1) Start editing any tune. 2) Save it to disk. 3) (optional) Restart your C64. 4) Load the tune from the disk. 5) Voila.
No red-dot markers in any new pattern. And no copy+paste possible.
A quick video (edit: corrected link):
http://youtu.be/uSNeIQdu7WU
Solution I tried:
I hoped that in both 20090304 and 20141107 it would be possible to work around the bug by copy+pasting existing empty pattern (00) with the end-pattern marker into new pattern that became corrupted (force override). That would be easy solution but when the bug happens - copy+paste doesn't work at all either (the border flashes red color only but the pattern is not copied - like at the end of the vid).
It happens both on real C64 (10+ different mobos+chips tested dating from 1982 up to 1993) and in emulated environment (Vice/CCS64/whatever) but I really don't think it's cycle/hardware-related issue.
56 Jun 4, 2017 12:00 pm
Re: defMON (438 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Okay. I decided to share mini-bug report on several defMON builds. I'd really appreciate to get some feedback.
20090304 build
1) If you load saved tune from the disk each new (unused) pattern will be missing end-pattern signature (red dots) at the end of the pattern. Unfortunately you're unable to put it manually in the last line again (you can put it anywhere else but not on the last line). This leads to player bugging out on pattern changes.
2) It's impossible to copy+paste patterns on tunes loaded from the disk anymore.
20141107 build
1) You can fix missing end-pattern signature (red dots) bug on corrupted tunes in this build.
2) If you load saved tune from the disk you still won't be able to copy+paste patterns anymore.
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Question 1 - If there's any workaround copy+paste not working after loading saved tune in 20141107 build - please let me know.
Question 2 - If there's any workaround missing end-pattern signature in 20090304 build after loading saved tune - please let me know.
57 Dec 30, 2016 11:46 pm
Re: DUBCRT (C64 music / glitch cartridge) (17 replies, posted in Releases)
Okay... So it looks like I've missed the opportunity to get my hands on the CRT release. To whom may I sell my soul and my car and my house to even get the chance of receiving burnable .crt or maybe even some beta/author-side real DUBCRTs? Anders80? iLKKe? Four-mat? Baby Jesus?